I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you… — Anwar Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't think any type of music is more important than another, but I do feel like pop music, the most simplified… — CMAT Copy Share Image
Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches… — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I remember agonising, the day before I had lunch with Tony Blair for the first time, over what my opening question to… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
Well, rock used to be the only game in town in terms of radio and what the kids listen to. Now I… — Kyle Gass Copy Share Image
Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique -… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
You're always searching for that new thing you can impose on the givens of pop music - that's when the change becomes… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial, so I'd be hard pressed to feel embarrassed by anything I listen to.… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists that come and go very quickly, and I understand why just because someone has a No.… — Ricki-Lee Coulter Copy Share Image
Pop music is actually a challenging genre. Not only do you have to be artistically expressive, but you also have to do… — Lights Copy Share Image
Rap started as this very black, socio-political type of thing. And now it's turned into pop music - we laugh about how… — Stephen Glover Copy Share Image
The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a… — Alice Nutter Copy Share Image
Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music.… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting… — David Guetta Copy Share Image
The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I want to produce more number one hits but not follow trends blindly! What I really hope to achieve in the long-term… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
Pop music written in guitar band formation was really popular in the '70s, with Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan. We wanted to… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
There are lots of stories in pop music, lots of lush orchestrations, lots of attention to detail. You just have to know… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries.… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
“Pop music is like fast food. It's always available quickly and might even taste good while you're eating it...but eventually you're going… — Marcus Eder Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, pre-1994 was still apartheid, so we didn't get a lot the subversive music from the States or… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
